Using Claude Code + Virlo's API to automate what takes agencies weeks
Jaife Esienna, Co-founder, Virlo
A close friend of mine, Fran - who's engineered a bunch of UGC campaigns for businesses like SideShift, Playkit, and SubMagic - called me a few weeks back and walked me through his entire workflow for finding UGC creators.
And his system was insane…
It pulls every viral UGC video in a niche, ranks by performance, builds a branded dashboard, and hands that dashboard to his creators.
The dashboard IS the brief.
Creators open it, see exactly what's going viral right now, grab the scripts, and recreate the formats that are already proven.
His philosophy:
"Why are we trying to create something new when this is already working? There's no point."
But Fran's system had one problem:
It still requires manual input.
Every week, he has to log in, view & export niche data from Virlo, then prompt Manus to feed this data into a dashboard. Repeat every week.
What he didn’t realize, is that if only he was using our API, he wouldn’t have to lift a finger to brief his creators.
So we automated it. Claude Code connects to Virlo's API, pulls fresh creator performance data on a schedule, and updates the entire system. What used to take Fran hours now runs on autopilot. When I showed how to do it on call, he said:
"This is gonna make my life 10,000 times easier."
So here's the exact system.